Best defrager for Windows XP

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Which program do the best job:

Windows Defrager?
Speed Disk?

Any other?
 
Moskus,

> Which program do the best job:

They all stink. I've used the one that comes with Windows, Norton, Diskeeper, and Raxco. They're all lousy, slow, and do an incomplete job. Stick with the free one from Windows.

By the way, the reason they're all the same is because they all rely on the defragmenting services built-into Windows. I'm waiting for someone to write a DOS-based defragmenter that you can use with Windows 2000 and XP. Yes, you'd have to reboot to use it, but then it could run quickly and do a complete job.

--Ethan
 
Absolutely agree. I wonder if there's any point installing Norton utilities on XP/2000. Windoctor is about the only useful utility in it now.
 
When using the windows defragger, I've found that running it multiple times is effective. Also, manually moving the pagefile to a different drive before defragging helps.

(of course I think defragging is *usually* pointless, and have demonstrated this to myself on many occasions, as my audio drive is 90% full and ULTRA fragmented...still I work with 24+ track 24bit projects and the drive barely sweats)

Slackmaster 2000
 
Thanks people! :)



I guess I'm waiting for Ethans DOS-defragger aswell.... ;)
 
Slackmaster2K said:
When using the windows defragger, I've found that running it multiple times is effective. Also, manually moving the pagefile to a different drive before defragging helps.

(of course I think defragging is *usually* pointless, and have demonstrated this to myself on many occasions, as my audio drive is 90% full and ULTRA fragmented...still I work with 24+ track 24bit projects and the drive barely sweats)

Slackmaster 2000
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Yup and Yup.
 
Disk keeper

disk keeper from executive software rocks....first and foremost they are the company that Microsoft licensed the free defrag from same software just not as full featured or as optimized.
 
I wouldnt say it rocks, but it works ok. Your swap file should always be a permenant fixed size, and if done a fresh drive or one that is unfragmented, it should never get fragmented after that. NTFS is not as prone to fragmentation as fat32, according to microsoft anyway. YMMV
 
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